Tania McCartney Blog: Australia Illustrated Virtual Launch - Cups of Tea with Friends... articles, interviews, reviews

http://taniamccartneyweb.blogspot.com/2012/11/australia-illustrated-november-2016-ek.html

Put the kettle on! And brew yourself a cuppa to enjoy this series of posts with some truly fabulous people.

Enormous thanks to the special people who have hosted a little visit from me during this virtual launch. Yes, I popped in for a virtual cup of tea with several talented friends, and herewith a peek at those cups of virtual tea. Make sure you stop awhile and check out each site--these are some amazing people, doing some amazing things!

At the bottom of this post, you'll see links to some early reviews and other articles--and I'll update this post with reviews as they come in over the following weeks.

https://girlandduck.com/2016/10/25/writing-nonfiction-for-kids/

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a tartufo with author Jen Storer, where I have a good old chinwag on her Girl and Duck site about that heavenly genre—non-fiction books—and about how bananas the Australia Illustrated creative process was

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a homemade sausage roll with author Dee White on DeeScribe, where I talk about writing and illustrating a picture book even though I didn’t really know how to at the time

http://www.mybookcorner.com.au/articles/1369-a-virtual-cup-of-tea-with-tania-mccartney-australia-illustrated-the-creation-of-a-picture-book

A Virtual Cup of Tea and some pistachio biscotti with author Dee White on Writing for Kids, where I chat about Authorstrators, yes I do

http://www.nickyjohnston.com.au/my-virtual-cup-of-tea-and-chat-with-authorillustrator-tania-mccartney/

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a slice of cassata with author/illustrator Nicky Johnston, where we natter about such delectable things as book genres, ideas and illustration style

http://writingclassesforkids.com/?p=2350

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a fluffy scone with jam and cream with Emma Perry of My Book Corner--where we go behind the scenes for a peek at picture book creation--how is it done??

https://alphabetsoup.net.au/2016/10/25/tania-mccartney-on-creating-a-picture-book/

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a strawberry cupcake with Matilda, who is 10 and is one of Soup Blog’s regular book reviewers (she knows books!), and where I respond to her brilliant questions about Australia Illustrated

https://jackiehoskingpio.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/australia-illustrated-virtual-launch/

A Virtual Cup of Tea and an affogato with Jackie Hosking of Pass it On--where I answer questions that made me smile, especially yellow ones

http://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/doodles-drafts-conversation-tania-mccartney-cup-tea/2016/10

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a warm croissant with author Dimity Powell, where we have a lovely meander through the creative process for Australia Illustrated and where I thoroughly enjoy my cup of tea

http://www.creativekidstales.com.au/authors-illustrators/tours-at-the-tales/2089-australia-illustrated

A Virtual Cup of Tea and a choc-chip cookie with Georgie Donaghey from Creative Kids’ Tales, where I answer some fabulous questions for her Tours and Tales